Re: BUG #2683: spi_exec_query in plperl returns column names which are not marked as UTF8

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Tom Lane asked:
> Well, we're still supporting some OS versions that are way over five
> years old. ISTM the real question is what do we buy if we make such
> a restriction? Getting rid of a few small ifdefs doesn't seem like
> an adequate reason. Is there some major improvement we could make?

Well, as you just pointed out in the last commit, Unicode-aware hashes.
Unicode in general was cleaned up and overhauled in 5.8, so if pl/perl
is going to make a serious attempt to support it, it probably should
require 5.8.

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